The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.